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Article on Evolv1 with hints of starting Evolv2 across the street in the near future.

http://dailycommercialnews.com/en-US/Pro...-1024092W/
There was a groundbreaking event for Evolv1 this morning. Speakers suggested that the first occupancy would happen summer of 2018. I'm not sure if it's in this thread, but one of the anchor tenants is Ernst & Young (er, EY).

Also, I would suggest this thread should be renamed Evolv1, but just a suggestion.
(06-23-2017, 11:18 AM)MidTowner Wrote: [ -> ]Also, I would suggest this thread should be renamed Evolv1, but just a suggestion.

How about

Evolv1 | ?m | 3 fl | U/C
Steel framing started going up last week.
This seems to be ticking along nicely. The framing started going up around the 5th, and was at the third floor by the end of last week. There was a fair bit of activity on site last week.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Looks like evolv1 is really coming along. Nice to see more <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wrLRT?src=hash">#wrLRT</a> -induced development! <a href="https://t.co/xoR2w2nE0r">pic.twitter.com/xoR2w2nE0r</a></p>&mdash; Iain Hendry (@Canardiain) <a href="https://twitter.com/Canardiain/status/894572447554576388">August 7, 2017</a></blockquote>
(02-17-2017, 03:54 PM)MidTowner Wrote: [ -> ]God knows. Something was not right, and we had to laugh when its performance was touted, as plug loads were not factored it. Nor should they have been, since that's not usually dependent on a building's design. But when a poorly-designed HVAC (whatever part of the HVAC) caused a lot of the space conditioning to be born by the plug load, that's not good.

It's true that ground-source heat pumps work great in the majority of cases, and I'm sure it will here, too. It will be neat to have a unique building like this at this spot.

My guess would be poorly designed HVAC systems.  Half the buildings I've worked in have had very poor HVAC systems.  The one I work in now has temperature differentials of 10 degrees between some rooms.  And I've never been in a building with anything besides traditional chillers and natural gas heaters.
That's not so much of an HVAC design issue (assuming forced-air HVAC), it's a matter of balancing the air outputs properly to achieve steady temperatures.
[EDIT] What-- this is so old (February) why did this come across my feeds just now?

The headline is a rather strong claim, and unfortunately the article fails to back it up with much in terms of detail.

An office building so green it actually produces energy
The Record

Quote:"We want to disrupt the industry with what we're going to build," said Adrian Conrad, chief operating officer at Cora.

"This is absolutely groundbreaking," Davidson said. "If we think about a clean economy, this is a game-changer.

I also found some advertising pdfs about it, complete with floorplans:
http://www.whitneyre.com/data/properties...%205pg.pdf

Quote:Building Features:
•This three-storey 110,000 SF building will be pursuing LEED Platinum
•Unit sizes available: 4,000 SF & 15,000 SF
•Café space available -located on the main floor with outdoor patio
•Main floor loading access with loading dock and double main doors
•3.5/1,000 SF on-site parking spaces provided including Electric Vehicle charging
•Free solar carport car & bicycle parking
•Prime signage & immediate access to ION Rapid Transit  
August 15, 2017
TextNow will be one of the tenants in Evolv1.

https://uwaterloo.ca/research-technology...eo-textnow
24 solar-powered EV charging spots have been added - 12 Tesla, 12 J2772, from what I'm told.

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(06-30-2018, 01:14 PM)Canard Wrote: [ -> ]24 solar-powered EV charging spots have been added - 12 Tesla, 12 J2772, from what I'm told.

Interesting that they put in Tesla-specific chargers given that Tesla has a J1772 adapter available.
Tesla gives their charging stations away for free to places that wish to install them (and for hotels/restaurants/etc will often even pay the install cost). So given charging stations are about $1000 each that's some reasonable savings.
(07-01-2018, 12:59 AM)taylortbb Wrote: [ -> ]Tesla gives their charging stations away for free to places that wish to install them (and for hotels/restaurants/etc will often even pay the install cost). So given charging stations are about $1000 each that's some reasonable savings.

Ah, subsidized by Tesla. That makes sense, then. They can always swap in different chargers later if/when the demand exceeds what they put in.
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